Warren’s Emily Litella moment on tax returns

posted at 1:21 pm on August 8, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

With all of the talk about tax returns dominating the national news, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren undoubtedly figured she could make some hay against Scott Brown on the topic, and get a little national media attention in the process. Why she thought that Brown, an attorney who has spent 30 years in the National Guard and had just been promoted to the rank of colonel, was wealthy enough to make income-tax returns a big issue is itself a mystery than may never be unraveled.

Elizabeth Warren demanded Monday that Senator Scott Brown release more of his tax returns. The only problem was that Brown, her Republican rival, had already released six years of tax returns while Warren has refused to release more than four years of her filings.

Now that Brown has been established as the more transparent candidate in the race, will Warren match Brown? Nope:

Asked to reconcile that apparent conflict, Warren backed off her demand, saying today that six years was enough. She did not, however, offer to release any more of her IRS filings.

Warren earlier tried to make the case that Brown should release twenty years of tax returns, the length of time that Brown has held public office in Massachusetts. Did she hold herself to that standard? If I’m asking the question …

“I think Scott Brown should release his tax returns for all the years he’s been in public service,” Warren said. “He’s been in public service for 20 years, then he should have 20 years of tax returns.” …

And even under that standard, Warren has limited her definition for her own career in public service. …

But she has not included her work from 1995 to 1997 as adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, or her 2006 appointment to the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion.

Did Warren even bother to check on Brown’s disclosure before stepping onto this political banana peel? Apparently not. If Warren is this incompetent at campaigning, research, and analysis, it’s a good thing that Republicans blocked her path to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Instead of riding high on a national wave of tax-return buzz, Warren has to hope no one notices her hypocrisy and incompetence.

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With the help of the Patrick Administration Warren is looking for an additional 500,000 votes. If anyone wondered why Obama was working so hard with the states to expand the welfare rolls here is your answer

The only problem was that Brown, her Republican rival, had already released six years of tax returns while Warren has refused to release more than four years of her filings.

Well, she’s refused to back down from the idea that she’s native American too and that has been proven to be false, at least in the sense that she’s not a recognized member of a recognized tribe.

She’s denied the fact that she used her “native American” status for hiring preferences at two universities. And she’s denied knowing that the universities were including her in their minority reporting statistics.

She’s a commited socialist so radical that she couldn’t get confirmed in the job made for her in the Obama administration.

This gaffe seems silly compared to the many things this pathological liar has working against her.

No, she’s more like a blonde Obama: without a teleprompter she’s a gaffe-bag; with one she’s got that same nose-in-the-air swiveling-head, hectoring, arrogant, in-your-face-know-it-all attitude that he does. Oh, and they’re both incompetent boobs who’ve never held a real job in their lives.

Mass residents would vote for Ted Kennedy’s decaying corpse if it were unearthed, stuffed in a suit, and propped up on a stage somewhere.

Bishop on August 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM

Which pretty much sums up Teddy Kennedy’s last few years in the Senate too. I honestly think the funniest thing about this very sad situation is when the MA GOP sent her a birthday gift subscription to Ancestry.com

Elizabeth Warren demanded Monday that Senator Scott Brown release more of his tax returns. The only problem was that Brown, her Republican rival, had already released six years of tax returns while Warren has refused to release more than four years of her filings.

She can’t help what she says, since she clearly has the genetic deformity known as “forked tongue” common to her people. I know whereof speak, since I actually am a 5th Degree Cherokee, and can prove it. You can’t believe anything the Dem side of my family says, so cut her some slack. It’s not like she’s running for high office or anything.

She makes the Cherokee nation proud that she is not one of them.
Where does Massachusetts find such candidates when there is a whole phone book full of better ones. If she had not rescued captitalism, there would be no reason at all to vote for her.

Jane Curtin: Miss – Miss Litella. Let – let’s get something straight. We’ve put up with your slight hearing impairment for a long time now and in the beginning it was cute. But now you’re part of a news team and we like to report the news accurately. Now, if you don’t report the news accurately, we’ll have to let you go. No job is permanent. Do you understand me?

“The state has mailed out voter registration letters to nearly 500,000 welfare recipients, in a push sparked by a group led by former ACORN bigwigs that critics say is a naked bid to boost Democrats at the polls in November.”

“Elizabeth Warren’s daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi is leaving nothing to chance in the 2012 election for her mother. Warren Tyagi, the chair of the George Soros funded Demos Foundation, has bankrolled, through Demos, former members of ACORN in their pursuit to have the Commonwealth’s welfare agency perform a voter registration drive. The Boston Herald has the story, although they missed the Warren familial connection.”

Yay Mittens you put that here, YES, not only do they get to spend their EBT cards on The Lottery, and Liquor, Vices, and get a new one when they lend it to a friend and he accidentally Loses it, but they need special help for welfare voter registration so you can vote yourself some stuff.

This is all Duval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren.

Here is what those who don’t live in MA need to know about Candidate Warren.

The MA congressional delegation and the democrat party don’t actually let anyone run for office because they HAVE the seats already, and so there are a lot of women in low office that are known locally but they don’t let them get any experience running, say against a Markey or a Tierney or a Tsongas, those positions are held for life. And when someone like Liz Warren hops in over them, hmmmm….